Skip to main content
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 12

Unknown
18th Century Paintings of Ottoman Empire Figures

circa 1770

About the Item

A remarkable trio of 18th century, oil-on-copper paintings of, Ottoman Empire figures in colorful robes and accouterments, posing in European style landscapes. Each figure is labeled on the lower left, and reveals their rank in an elite infantry known as the Janissaires, a group that formed the Ottoman Sultan's household troops, and was the first modern standing army in Europe.
  • Creation Year:
    circa 1770
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 14.5 in (36.83 cm)Width: 11.75 in (29.85 cm)Depth: 1.5 in (3.81 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Period:
    1770-1779
  • Condition:
    Some minor paint losses. The copper pictures are loose in their period frames.
  • Gallery Location:
    Los Angeles, CA
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU2563212565512

More From This Seller

View All
Debardeurs au Travail
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A hand-carved, gilt-wood framed oil on canvas “Debardeurs au Travail” by Belgium artist, Jacques Madyol (1871-1950). Madyol was a painter of genre scenes and portraits. He was also a...
Category

Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Untitled
By Ron Hicks
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Oil on canvas of a street scene in Florence by Chicago artist Ron Hicks (b. 1965) in a painted black frame with gilded trim Canvas: 40”H x 30”W
Category

Late 20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Untitled
By Achille-Émile Othon Friesz
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Oil on canvas landscape signed by listed, French artist Achille- Émile Othon Friesz. Dated 1920. Carved and painted frame.
Category

1920s Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

French 19th Century Oil on Canvas Painting of Soldier with His Horse
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A charming, signed and dated 1883, oil on canvas painting of a soldier and his horse in period gilt-wood frame.
Category

Late 19th Century Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Untitled
By Edouard Masson
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Landscape oil on canvas by French artist Edouard Masson (1881-1950) in a hand-carved, gilded frame.
Category

Early 20th Century Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Pair of French 18th Century Oil on Canvas Boiserie Paintings
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pair of hand-painted, oil on canvas paintings from a boiserie room. Gilding detail on hand-painted frames.
Category

18th Century Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

You May Also Like

Allegory of Abundance
Located in New York, NY
Painted in collaboration with Hendrick van Balen (Antwerp, 1575 – 1632). Provenance: Private Collection, Uruguay, since the 1930s. The eldest son of Jan Br...
Category

17th Century Old Masters Paintings

Materials

Copper

Joseph Holding the Christ Child
By Pietro Bardellino
Located in New York, NY
Provenance: Private Collection, Argentina. A work of great delicacy and intimacy, this small painting on copper by Pietro Bardellino treats a subject which grew in popularity during the Baroque period: Saint Joseph and the Christ child...
Category

18th Century Baroque Paintings

Materials

Copper

Two Scenes of Diana and Actaeon (a pair)
By Giovanni Battista Viola
Located in New York, NY
Provenance: Robert L. and Bertina Suida Manning, New York, until 1996 Private Collection, USA Giovanni Battista Viola was born in Bologna a...
Category

17th Century Baroque Landscape Paintings

Materials

Copper

Portrait of a Bewigged Gentleman
By Vittore Ghislandi
Located in New York, NY
Vittore Ghislandi, called Fra Galgario Provenance: Robert L. and Bertina Suida Manning, New York, ca. 1966-1996 Private Collection, USA Exhibited: “Eighteenth Century European Pai...
Category

18th Century Baroque Paintings

Materials

Copper

Cape #3: Provincetown, miniature realist seascape painting
By Dina Brodsky
Located in New York, NY
Dina Brodsky has begun another chapter in her visual journal, documenting her newfound home on the New England coast. Her pinhole representations of the Massachusetts Cape pack virtu...
Category

2010s American Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Copper

Cape #5: Mashpee, miniature realist landscape painting
By Dina Brodsky
Located in New York, NY
Dina Brodsky has begun another chapter in her visual journal, documenting her newfound home on the New England coast. Her pinhole representations of the Massachusetts Cape pack virtu...
Category

2010s American Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Copper

Recently Viewed

View All